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Painted bodies : African body painting, tattoos & scarification / Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher ; text with Mary Anne Fitzgerald

Painting with chalk -- Chalk & ocher -- Colors of the earth -- Ocher bodies -- Red ocher -- Ocher & oil -- Powdered with ash -- Patterns of beauty -- Spirit paint -- Painting for seduction "The ...
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'American African' identity is explored by U.S. artist with Ghanaian/Nigerian roots

"The Fine Cut" is a re-created barbershop poster that depicts two kinds of cuts — hairstyles of African-American men and ritual scarification of African faces. (Vivian Doering) How do I describe my ...
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Cape Verdean Brockton artist achieves dream with 'African Scarification' exhibit

BROCKTON – On one of the loosely bunched islands of Cape Verde, formed by volcanoes aggressively erupting from the ocean floor, Nuno Ribeiro was born. The young boy living in Praia would one day ...
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Body art

Includes six distributional maps of various types of East African hairdressing, body painting, and scarification. Includes abbreviated bibliographical references, which refer back to a bibliography on ...